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Minimalist

When even one of the allegedly sanest republicans shows that he has his head planted firmly up his fucking ass.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/...TE&ei=5043

Quote:Mitt Romney, who likes to promote his years in the private sector when out on the stump, offered a glimpse into his own business perspective at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, telling a group of hecklers, “Corporations are people, my friend.”

No, you stupid fuck. Corporations are NOT people. They do not eat, sleep, or dream....although they do fuck everyone they can and shit all over the landscape.

**Tiberius**

Corporations are not people. True. However corporations are nothing without people.

**Moros Synackaon**

So? Axes are not people. True. However, axe murders are nothing without people.

Doesn't change the fact that a corporation is a virtual construct, a distinct non-person.

Skeptic

Not claiming to be an expert on US law but...

"In the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394, the Supreme Court recognized that corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

**Tiberius**

(11th August 2011 23:16)Moros Synackaon Wrote: So? Axes are not people. True. However, axe murders are nothing without people.

Doesn't change the fact that a corporation is a virtual construct, a distinct non-person.

I never said anything to the contrary. I was merely stating that people are a core part of any corporation.

Your analogy with axes doesn't really work, since you change the subject halfway through from axes to axe murders. If you leave the subject as an axe, then it is ridiculous to say that an axe is nothing without people, since it is still an axe.

A corporation on the other hand ceases to be a corporation if it doesn't have any people associated with it. The original Pets.com used to be a corporation, but it ceased being one when it failed and everyone left it. You can't have a corporation with no employees, just as you can't have an organisation with no members.

Some definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary (to back my points up).

"A number of persons united, or regarded as united, in one body; a body of persons."

"A body corporate legally authorized to act as a single individual; an artificial person created by royal charter, prescription, or act of the legislature, and having authority to preserve certain rights in perpetual succession. A corporation may be either aggregate, comprising many individuals, as the mayor and burgesses of a town, etc., or sole, consisting of only one person and his successors, as a king, bishop, or parson of a parish. According to their nature, corporations are termed civil, ecclesiastical (U.S. religious), eleemosynary, municipal, etc."

Minimalist

(11th August 2011 23:04)Tiberius Wrote: Corporations are not people. True. However corporations are nothing without people.

For once, Tiberius, I agree with you.

Although most of the people who run corporations are just cocksuckers.

Judas BentHer

With a comment like that, Romney sounds like Obama, who's clearly fond of the people in corporate America.

Holy Nonsense
Mitt Romney's windy, worthless speech.
By Christopher Hitchens
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007
(Romney's speech in full)

Let's see if the board bug will let it post right, this time.

With a comment like that, Romney sounds like Obama, who's clearly fond of the people in corporate America.

Holy Nonsense
Mitt Romney's windy, worthless speech.
By Christopher Hitchens
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007

(Romney's speech in full)